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Sources suggest the Benghazi attack was a bungled abduction attempt (2012)
Examiner blog ^ | 11/15/12

Posted on 10/17/2015 9:10:51 PM PDT by Carismar

Retired Four-Star Admiral James “Ace” Lyons, one of the guests on “Lou Dobbs Tonight” this past Wednesday evening, suggests the attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi, Libya on September 11 was the result of a bungled abduction attempt. Admiral Lyons, whose career in the United States (U.S.) Navy was capped by two years of service as the Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet from 1985 to 1987, thinks this kidnapping was planned to be the first stage of an international prisoner exchange. This transfer of prisoners would have ensured the release of Omar Abdel Rahman, the “Blind Sheik” convicted of orchestrating the World Trade Center Bombing in 1993. Lyons' analysis of the evidence led him to the failed kidnapping conclusion. Admiral James Lyons suggests the Obama administration intentionally lessened the levels of security at the consulate compound in Benghazi in the weeks leading up to the attack. This plan should have worked to reduce the possibility of resistance as the Ansar al-Sharia terrorist organization captured Chris Stevens, the American Ambassador to Libya.

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TOPICS: Canada; Egypt; Foreign Affairs; Government; Russia; US: South Carolina; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 1993; 20120911; benghazi; blindsheikh; clinton; gowdy; libya; omarabdelrahman; rahman; wtcbombing
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To: Sarah Barracuda
I have also been saying this for YEARS. I mean, why ELSE would Hillary REDUCE Amb. Stevens' security??? Also note, I believe there's a 2 or 3 month gap in Hillary's emails from the time leading up to the Benghazi attack.

BTW, is there any PROOF the Blind Sheik is still in U.S. custody?

41 posted on 10/17/2015 11:34:39 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: gnarledmaw

More like a MANPADS TO Syrian Rebel Group exchange. It was an assault on the CIA warehouse gone bad when the SEALS fought too hard. A handful of SEALS to the fight to well over a hundred of Huma’s Facebook “friends”


42 posted on 10/18/2015 2:16:36 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: Carismar; All

Anyone have the e-mail that was sent by Smith (the other guy with Amb. Stevens that night) to a friend talking about IF they could survive that night! He sent it BEFORE anything happened......anyone have it?


43 posted on 10/18/2015 3:58:41 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Carismar

The Blind Sheikh needs to meet Mr. Shiv.


44 posted on 10/18/2015 4:00:52 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (Obama - "I will stand with the Muslims")
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To: Carismar

The Blind Sheikh needs to meet Mr. Shiv.


45 posted on 10/18/2015 4:00:59 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (Obama - "I will stand with the Muslims")
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To: Carismar

Enm Gahzi was an attempt by democrats to exploit third world illegals which backfired in their faces with the said illegals demanding to use the Democrats and not the other way around.


46 posted on 10/18/2015 4:06:10 AM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall no)
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To: Carismar
Hani Nour Eldin and Morsi are NEW NAMES to me involved in this scandal!!

Read the entire article....it's STUNNING!

47 posted on 10/18/2015 4:10:02 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Carismar

They were arming Syrian rebels, but this is the most logical explanation for the attack in Benghazi.

There was a reason the security was bad and Stevens was lured into the trap.

It was a kidnapping gone awry.


48 posted on 10/18/2015 4:10:10 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Carismar

49 posted on 10/18/2015 4:11:18 AM PDT by McGruff (Trump-Cruz 2016. Make America Great Again.)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
The SAME Muslim Brotherhood that Huma Abedin's Family is totally involved with!!

And Huma's e-mail told Hillary that she talked to her friend that was at the Compound that night....WHO IS IT?????

50 posted on 10/18/2015 4:12:08 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Carismar

The story is great, the headline is wrong. It was not a “bungled” operation, it was a full scale military attack stopped by heroes Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty.


51 posted on 10/18/2015 4:13:14 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: Carismar

I think this is true, and had it happened Romney would have won. There is no doubt that Obama and company feared another jimmy carter fiasco before the election and wanted it squelched at all costs, and that mean’t sacrificing our people. The four that died actually stopped something that could have more horrendous.


52 posted on 10/18/2015 4:18:01 AM PDT by nikos1121 ("There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." Thoreau)
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To: semimojo

Possibly the tape of the Egyptian yelling “Don’t shoot! Don’t shoot! Dr. Morsi sent us!” That went missing REAL quick. I remember it because I was stunned Morsi was a Doctor of anything.


53 posted on 10/18/2015 4:29:51 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Carismar

I think the WH was involved from the get go, it was just before the election, Obama and Democrats would have appeared as heros in getting the hostiges released before the election.


54 posted on 10/18/2015 5:34:54 AM PDT by stockpirate (The Republican leadership are all fascist/Socialists, just like the fascist democrats.)
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To: Carismar
A very strange blog, Lame Cherry, was laying this out a day or two after the attack.

They get their blind sheik and Obama gets the win Carter never did in his hostage crisis with negotiation right before the election. The problem is that you can not trust muslims to follow orders. They figured out what their part would be in this (dead in the end) and decided to change the story.

Even the Egyptians when Sisi came to power said they had proof that the last Egyptian government had been in on this with Obama. Can't imagine why the MSM did not go all out investigating or reporting.

55 posted on 10/18/2015 6:38:21 AM PDT by Lady Heron
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To: super7man

“And Hillary and Obama were part of the team.”

The dems praising Peanuts Carter at their convention tells you that.

Obama never even talked to Carter because he didn’t want to be compared to Carter so there is no way possible Obama would turn his convention over to Carter without a reason.

The plan was for there to be a repeat of the Iranian hostage crisis and an “October Surprise” so they could blame the attack on “right wing extremist” collaborating with the terrorist to make Obama look like Peanuts Carter.


56 posted on 10/18/2015 7:20:09 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: Talisker

Best check who the Admiral supports politically. I do not buy the admirals guestimate. If this was a kidnap why did they have a Muslim anal coitus gang bang contest on the ambassador? The admiral should stick to hawking VA refi loans on TV.


57 posted on 10/18/2015 7:30:10 AM PDT by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
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To: The Final Harvest

Stevens and the president.


58 posted on 10/18/2015 7:58:31 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: Carismar; SJackson

The theory makes sense.

As does the fact that the (homosexual) ambassador was in Benghazi to facilitate/expedite transfer of captured arms inside Libya - whether to or from Libyan terrorists is “somewhat” open to debate given the fanatic support the Obola administration gives EVERY Muslim group.

And the more radical the Muslim group, the more support they get.


59 posted on 10/18/2015 9:00:05 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: M-cubed

Oops, maybe I didn’t say it right.

I was thinking Obama would want to exchange 5 Guantanamo bad guys for an ambassador. Seems like a more legitimate trade. Actually, Obama was hoping to be a hero in getting Stevens back.

But he had to settle for a guy that later was found to be a deserter. No hero for Obama in this case.


60 posted on 10/18/2015 12:00:51 PM PDT by super7man (Oh why did I post that, now I'll never be able to run for Congress.)
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